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27 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments jday1235
Hello there! I have not posted here in well over two years, but want to change that. My previous posts were solely about bees, yet I wanted to expand the scope to more topics. Posts about bees will still happen, but I also want to include my other in...
19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments CDBeck
Map image courtesy of BeeCounted Citizen Science In earlier posts I used my Seek Thermal Camera to show the heat coming off each of my two bee hives before and after I added insulation for the winter. So far the bees have survived the winter – they...
5 Feb 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Nifty Buckles
Hi Folks! Hope your all having a fine week. Today I'm writing on one of my Favorite Folk Tales, Telling The Bees. What would we do without bees? Their one of Gaia’s major pollinators. Researchers today claim without bees humanity will cease to exist...
18 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments CDBeck
As a newbie hobby beekeeper, I was devastated two years ago when I opened the hives for the first time in the spring. I found the bottom boards of both my hives covered with dead bees. There was lots of honey stored - I still have about a gallon of...
21 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments CDBeck
December brought the first hard frost of the season. One of the things I do for my hives is to wrap them in insulation for the winter. But before I do that, I thought I’d snap a few pictures of the hives with my Seek Thermal camera. I was hoping to s...
18 Dec 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Kelii
Bee Network is a new blockchain innovation that allows users to earn Bees a new cryptocurrency, earning these Bees on you mobile phone by activating the mining button once every 24 hours through a simple press of a button. The app does not need to st...
10 Aug 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Finishing off my "A Closer Look at Solitary Bees" series I had a few short clips of the Bees I assembled into a compilation. They were recorded at 60 FPS, so I slowed down the video by half and added some ambient music. The video starts off with the...
14 Jul 2020 1 minute read 5 comments Drache
Last week the weather was fine and I had to do some work in my garden. While working there I found some little helpers who take care of the flowers. I could not identify them but maybe you could do it. So I guessed what for an insect it is. It was ju...
9 Jul 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Solominer
The adult bees are done with their seasonal work, being out only from February through April. I look at their homes and discuss how it all went and what to expect next. We look at both the bee cubbies and the bee house. No signs of adult Mason Bees...
5 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Around where I live these bees emerge in late February. The time can vary in different places based on when temperatures rise above 55F (12C). In North Georgia this will occur early on in February or March. Winter is not usually done by then and som...
